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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON
THURSDAY. MARCH 31.1 949
Airplane Combats
Blow-Down Loss
In Banana Belt
ta Lima Honduras Wi High
over the banana far mi of thii tiny
republic a lone aviator is buzzing
the cloud banks these, days in one
of man's most persistent efforts
; to exert control over the weather.
Sometimes a few drops of rain
may fall, but ratnmaklng la not
his prime purpose. What he
hopes to do is dissipate clouds
and prevent winds from blowing
- down the country's rich banana
.. crop. . . :
Joseph Silverthorn is. the avia
tor's name. He is chief pilot for
the United Fruit company, wnich
maintains a fleet of private planes
here In connection with .its mum-
million dollar banana business.
Every afternoon Silverthorn
spots a cloud somewhere over
;. Honduras that he thlnKs mlgnt
be worth lookink into. Then he
cranks up-hls-twhvengine Lode
star airplane and starts climbing.
'. The clouds that Silverthorn re
gards as worthy of his attention
are the deep ones that go up as
high as 15,000 to 25,000 leet.
Balloons Released T
Once inside Such a cloud bank
he begins -giving orders over the
jnter-com to nis navigator ana an
assistant in the rear of the plane.
; They have at. their elbow a large
. ice-box containing small - rubber
balloons filled with water and a
wetting agent called. .OT-100, .
I At a command from the pilot.
The men in the back of the plane
poke tne Balloons out tnrougn a
funnel in the plane s side. If a
(loud is effectively dispersed it
may prevent it from causing a
damaging wind disturbance.
I Silverthorn and his crew keep
Elaborate notes on every observa
tion they can make while aloft
temperature Inside and outside
fcloud banks, altitude, 'density and
nature of clouds, speed of plane,
and amounts 61 water and OT-100
released.
I This information is sent prompt
. ly to the laboratories of General
Electric in Schenectady, N. Y.,.
Where it is compiled and studied
scientists specializing in weath
er experiments. Silverthorn prob
ably is piling up the biggest back
log of "weather making" data
ever gathered. i n ' . ; , : ,
j .. Scientists Interested
b Scientists visiting here from the
. E. laboratories in Schenectady
' egard . the Silverthorn experi
ments as of great Importance, but
re unable to, say' precisely what
they have proved. .The real pay-
bff may be years away. If damag-'i
Ing winds are less frequent In tne
' rnonth when Silverthorn is at
work in the clouds, it is a fair,
assumption that his work is hav
ing some effect.
Even a -light -breeze of 20 miles
an hour is a potential scourge in
the banana country. It causes
what the banana people call a
"blow down." Thousands of mar
ture banana stems come crashing
dovn from . the. tops of fragile
banana stalks in a wind of that
velocity. The fruit is than a total
loss because such large quantities
could not be moved to market all
at once. '; '
Docusen to Fight
Savage at Tacoma
Tacoma, Wash., March 3Vtp
Bernard Docusen, ruing young
New Orleans welterweight.- was
expected to give away-, eight
pounds to Seattle's hard-punching
middleweight, Mtlo Savage, -In a
catchweight 10-round fight here
tomorrow nignt. -
The scrappy 22-year-old Filipino
was expected to tilt the scales at
147 pounds while Savage agreed
to trim down to at least 155. -,
Docusen, who lost a close 15
round decision to Sugar Ray Rob
inson last June In a ' Madison
Square garden bout, is after a
return match. He has an impres
sive record of 65 wins In 68 profes
sional bouts over a four year
span.
savage, me 2J-year-oia seauie
negro, set boxing circles buzzing
recently by three times defeating
Dick Wagner, a current middle,
weight rage on the eastern circuit.
Docusen is scheduled to appear
on a ring card in San Francisco
later this month.
BILLY CONN TO QUIT
Columbus, O., March 31 Ui
Billy Conn, the Pittsburgh fighter
wno twice irieq unsuccessiuuy 10
dethrone heavyweight champion
Joe Louis, today declared himself
definitely tnrougn as a ngnier.
The dark-haired Steel City slug
ger told friends here during a
visit - yesterday he had decided
that Jersey Joe Walcott, Kzzurd
Charles.-Lee Savold -and-others
can have the field to themselves.
Conn said he was too old to
fight anymore and besides, there
is a matter of his oil Wells in
Oklahoma to occupy his Interest
now.
PROSPECTS UNKNOWN
Madras. March 31 In prepa
ration for four meets, one at Cor
vallis on May 20 and 21, when
plans call for participation of the
local athletes at the state high
school field and track event and
three central Oregon sessions,
Carl Rhoda, superintendent of the
Madras union high school, reports
that , prospects locally continue
unknown. Rhoda states that
weather conditions have prevent
ed the turn-out of prospective field
and track men. : "We have had
only one 'jntten' aay, ne oeciarea.
un April itf, tne local scnooi
will participate in a three-way
meet, including Prlneville and
Redmond teams, at Redmond. The
Central Oregon high school meet,
at Bend on April 30 will draw a
keen Uocal interest) Khoda said.
On May 7 the local team will go
to Prineville for a dual meet.
Golfer Ben Hogan
To Return Home
El Paso. Tex.. March 31 IU')
Bantam Ben Hogan will set out for
his Fort worth nome Friday on
the second leg of a Journey that
almost cost him his life.
The first leg of the trip started
at Phoenix, Ariz., and ended at
Van Horn, Tex., last Feb. 2 when
Ben's sedan crashed head-on into
a bus. He was taken to Hotel
Dieu hospital here and encased
in a plaster cocoon when X-rays
told the story he had received a
Rockne Honored
At Notre Dame
South Bend. Ind., March 31 U
The valiant immigrant' who ele
vated Notre Dame . to national
football power was not forgotten
today, the 18th anniversary of
his death In a flaming airplane
crash in Kansas. -
Knute Rockne. born in .Norway
and educated under the "golden
dome" at South Bend largely by
the meager funds he earned from
manual labor was honored in un
counted Catholic masses for the
repose of his soul.
-The masses were donated by
friends who remained anonymous
and by the aging priests who
taught the youth 30 years ago
and who later cheered the foot
ball teams he produced and took
from coast to coast to display the
erid skills of the "fighting Irish,"
and Poles and Swedes and Ger
mans.
broken pelvis, a fractured collar
bone, rib and angle in the crash.
Physicians at Hotel Dleu told
Hogan yesterday he could leave
Friday. He will board a train for
Fort Worth at noon Friday. .
Hearing Delayed
For Aged Sisters
Paola, Kans.; March 31 ipi A
sanity hearing has been postpon
ed Indefinitely for 65-year-old
twin spinsters who nearly starved
to death In a house of plenty
while they guarded the body of
their 73-year-old brother for two
weeks.
The body of ' Albert Stachllng
was found in bed late Monday
when Sheriff Kenneth Cook
smashed his way into the barri
caded family home. Coroner Will-
lam Brown said Albert had died
nearly two weeks earlier, appar
ently of starvation. The sisters
had locked themselves in another
bedroom. , .
There was no explanation for
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condition of the sisters. The six
room frame farm home was clut
tered with bed clothing, oil cook
ing stoves, antiques and refuse
piled nearly to the celling, but
there were several boxes of can
ned food in the house.
" Investigators found gold, bonds
and currency totaling $8,299.97.
The twins, Mattie and Mandy,
were In no condition for a sanity
hearing.' Probate Judge A. A.
Kraft said the hearing was "up
in the air" until they could make
"a few decisions" of their own. .
Mattie and Mandy ate sparing
ly yesterday, but only' after the
food had been tasted by someone
else "for polsoni"
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